I rebuilt a box once and ran into a similar problem. As it turned out one of the memory slots was shorting out against an unused metal post (used to attach the motherboard to the case). The new motherboard had a different arrangement of mounting holes, and one post was unused. It was making contact with the soldered underside of a memory slot. I just used some electrical tape on top of the post and that ended the problem. A long shot I know, but you never can tell..........:) MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 12:13 PM To: SuSE listserve Subject: Re: [SLE] [OT] Rebuilt computer just beeps Thanks to all for the pointers to the beep codes. Alas, it didn't help; it's an Award bios and a no-name motherboard. And none of the descriptions of beep codes mention continual, regular beeping; they all describe groups of beeps or sequences of up to 11 single beeps. This guy beeps until I shut him off. The motherboard has slots for both DIMMs and SIMMs. I've tried using a 128MB DIMM from another computer but couldn't seem to get it to seat properly. (The original 32MB DIMM I was trying is probably bad, since the other [working] computer didn't recognize it.) I'm thinking of trying to pick up a pair of SIMMs (which is what was there when I last used the board), but I don't want to waste my money on SIMMs for a board that wouldn't run anyway. So perhaps I should turn the question around: if you start up a motherboard with no memory, is it likely to emit continual regular beeps? Paul -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com